Daily Current Affairs Updates

Reserve Bank has asked banks to pay interest on savings banks account on quarterly basis or shorter duration, a move which will benefit crores of savings account holders.

Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary will be elevated to Sainthood i.e. will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on September 4, 2016.

Myanmar̢۪s Parliament elected Htin Kyaw (69) as the first civilian (non-military) President of the country after 53 years of military rule.

Nana Vasconcelos, who died recently, was a percussionist of which country?

• ICICI bank ties up with Ferrari for co-branded credit card
• Renowned British author Anita Brookner passes away
• Palestinian Hanan Al Hroub wins 2016 Global Teacher Prize

Almost 40 per cent of people who have obtained Aadhaar numbers say that it has not helped them, with banking correspondents in rural areas reporting that accounts opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) using Aadhaar face authentication issues, leading to failed transactions, according to a report.

Country̢۪s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has tied up with marquee sports car maker Ferrari to launch co-branded credit card.

Indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-I was successfully test-fired off the Odisha coast.

Recently, power generation unit 1 at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat was shut down for indefinitely period after leakage of heavy water.

An unmanned spacecraft named ExoMars 2016 was successfully launched jointly Europe and Russia to search for biosignatures on Mars (or Martian life) in past or present.

Union Government has announced that out of 96,000 animal species found in India more than 50 animals have been assessed as critically endangered (CR) and 310 as endangered (EN).

The Union Government has notified maximum sale price (MSP) of Bt cotton seed for the year 2016-17.